A tight 5: July 25

Sarah Millican has been announced for one-off show at the Edinburgh Fringe. She is to perform stand-up as part of an hour-long fundraiser for the Leicester Comedy Festival, which this year lost its sponsorship from TV channel Dave, to be held at the Underbelly on August 16. Tickets. She had previously announced two other Fringe appearances in aid of her online women's magazine, Standard Issue, performing stand-up as part of another line-up show on the 16th and heading an 'in conversation with' event on the 15th, both at The Stand.

THE Leicester Square Theatre is to stage what’s being billed as the first stand-up show to be performed in both Arabic and English in the UK. 5 Egyptians, A Pakistani, An Indian And A Jew will feature Egyptian comics from Al Hezb El Comedy, who will perform in their native tongue in the first half, with the second half given over to British acts including Anil Desai, Sajeela Kershi and Josh Howie. Tickets for the August 10 gig are available here.

ENTRIES have opened for this year’s Comedy Poster Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe. Two prizes of £1,500 – funded by sponsors Suite, a video post-production house – are up for grabs for the winners of the audience and judges’ prize. Entrants should be uploaded HERE is the first look at Sandi Toksvig in her new role as host of BBC Two’s QI. She takes over from Stephen Fry for the N series this autumn. She said: ‘This season you'll find all the nugacities you could hope for along with some straightforward nescience, the odd narquois comment and a lot of narishkeit, all of which adds up to a neogenesis on the letter N. Oh, and we had fun too.’

THE script of Liam Williams’ first play Travesty is to be published as a book. Nick Hern Books are releasing it on August 4, to coincide with the piece’s premiere at the Assembly George Square at the Edinburgh Fringe. The plot concerns two young, slightly lost, middle-class people who ‘cautiously negotiate’ their way into a relationship. Order.

Published: 25 Jul 2016